[SPOILERS] My (long) Andromeda final review

I agree 100% with your review, anarchy65 but this post is mean-spirited. It's not even beating a dead horse, it's digging up the dry carcass and tearing out some fleshy strings. Most reviewers know this game is garbage and most people are indifferent to it. It's time to move on for those of us who know better.

It took me a while to figure out these subforums are a kind of therapy support group for delusional people that can't let go. It's morbidly fun to watch but it's still mean to invade their safe space.

OP's review is still accurate regardless of their intent. Those who disagree and still expect DLC are delusional. 

I also see a lot of misrepresentation in your rant "review".

For example:

How soon we forget - MET had cutscenes of hitting the relay every time you travel to a different cluster. Also, there were often cutscenes of docking and taking off. Sometimes they didn't bother, but instead just showed you a loading screen of some sort.

The Mako bounced around like every world was low gravity, (nearly) always landed on its feet, and seemed to exist in some sort of impenetrable bubble that only took damage under enemy fire. The Nomad is much faster, much more maneuverable, offers a variety of upgrades to improve it and skins to customize its appearance. The Nomad was as fast (or faster) in 6-wheel drive as the Mako's top speed - and in 4WD, it nearly flew. I guess I've never really recognized that games shouldn't require a player to push buttons, since that's pretty much what they do throughout.

You can run over and kill smaller creatures if you do it right. Running into a group of kett sends them flying and does some damage.

Scanning in MET was somehow more interesting? The low gravity physics on H-047c is something they were never able to do pre-Frostbite, and the quests available there had multiple steps involved.

The Ryders managed to defeat the Archon largely due to their grit, tenacity, and strength of will, and it took both of them working together to finish the job. Fictional characters often emerge victorious due to their masterful skill set, split-second timing, logistics choices, and the like - I found the Ryder's winning via strength of character refreshing.

BTW - the game didn't leave any cliffhangers - all of the immediate problems were solved, if only temporarily.  It did leave some unsolved mysteries and inject some additional plot threads, which is common practice in ongoing fiction.

My take on your entire diatribe is that it didn't meet your personal desires.  I'm not sure what you expected, as a lot of the elements of MET were there, many vastly improved.

That you want the series to end because you didn't happen to like the latest installment, knowing full well that many other people are looking forward to its continuance is just... oh, nevermind.

Shouldn't this be moved to the completed reviews thread?

I agree 100% with your review, anarchy65 but this post is mean-spirited. It's not even beating a dead horse, it's digging up the dry carcass and tearing out some fleshy strings. Most reviewers know this game is garbage and most people are indifferent to it. It's time to move on for those of us who know better.

It took me a while to figure out these subforums are a kind of therapy support group for delusional people that can't let go. It's morbidly fun to watch but it's still mean to invade their safe space.

I understand, but what score would you give a game that not only is very weak in EVERY aspect, but it also has a lot of technical issues that make playing almost impossible? I had to give up playing before patching came up, because EVERY DAMN TIME I WENT BACK TO THE NEXUS, the game would crash during the cutscene. 

If it helps, I can compose a list of what this game could've done without:
1. SAM solving everything.
2. Scanning.
3. For the most part lazy rehashing of old themes. (It would've been nice to have a major theme of exploration and the problems of a one way trip whilst also having some of the old themes play a role.)
I will admit the story made usage of Deus Ex Machina a bit too much, in this case, SAM solving everything because the writer's were lazy. Characters IMHO were fine, SAM being my least favorite. (Jesus H. Christ SAM, I know that it's cold, STOP REMINDING ME GOD DAMMIT!)

How is it delusional when BioWare hasn't said anything official one way or another? It would only be delusional if BioWare said anything on dlc and also.. 

Nice bant over here.

Anyway, i still can't believe how a thunder can break an advance shuttle with kinetic barriers and spacemagic in half, but it can't take down an airplane...